Companies Are Chasing the Wrong Hires

By

Rachel Emma Silverman

Jun 10, 2015 1:17 pm ET

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Companies devote vast amounts of time and energy to tracking down “passive” candidates, the pool of happily employed people who aren’t actively looking for a new job, yet will take calls from recruiters.

But new research from job-listing site Indeed Inc. suggest passive candidates are very rare. Most of us are looking for new gigs–even when we don’t think we are.